Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> writes: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 at 23:53:58 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >>Is it forbidden for packages to exist in unstable and/or experimental >>only in Debian? > > It is allowed. firefox (the non -esr version) and wine-development are > examples of packages that exist only in unstable (with a RC bug to > stop them from migrating to testing), while libsdl3-mixer and openjk > are examples of packages that exist only in experimental.
Thanks for confirming! This aspect wasn't terribly clear to me. Is it discussed in any policy document? >>While liboqs is not intended for normal production use because of >>certain properties, it is useful for its designated purposes of >>experiments and testing. I think we somehow conflate these two, >>thinking that everything in a Debian stable release MUST be intended for >>secure production use. > > Debian stable is exactly for production use There are plenty of things in debian stable clearly marked as unsuitable for critical use - most of the Go and Rust ecosystems, but many other packages too. Or am I missing something? Maybe it is the definition of "production use" that is what is at heart here. Production use of software X for user A may be completely frown upon for user B because they have different use-cases in mind that it doesn't meet desirable properties. I don't think unsuitability for one use-case is motivation enough to ban a package from stable and/or unstable. /Simon
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